- Industri: Government; Labor
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A professional who inspects railroad ties for defects and checks measurement of ties, using tape measure. Responsibilities include:
* Examines tie for defects, such as knots, square or round ends, or rot.
* Measures width of tie, using tape measure.
* Classifies tie according to width and kind of wood.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who this division includes occupations concerned with shaping stone, clay, and glass parts or products by removing excess material from stock or objects, primarily by such means as cutting, boring, abrading, milling, and planing.
* Includes laying out, job setting, repairing, fitting, and assembling.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who this group includes occupations concerned with trimming and surfacing blocks and slabs of stone to desired size, shape, or finish.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates one or more gangsaws or reciprocating saws to cut rough blocks of stone into specified dimensions for further processing. Responsibilities include:
* Builds bed of timbers on flat car.
* Aligns and levels stone on bed, using crowbar, sledgehammer, wedges, blocks, and spirit level.
* Marks dimensions on stone, using straightedge, rule, and crayon.
* Turns crank or pushes button to activate winch that moves car onto track under saw frame.
* Moves saw blades along frame, aligning blades with marks on stone; positions blocks (width gauges) between blades; levels blades; and inserts wedges into frame to secure blades to frame.
* Turns lever to lower saw blades on stone.
* Starts saws and pump that circulates water and abrasive under reciprocating blades to cut stone.
* Observes sawing to detect exhausted abrasive supply.
* Dumps abrasive into abrasive pit to maintain cutting speed.
* Turns crank to increase or decrease speed of saws according to hardness of stone and uniformity of abrasive flow.
* Washes stone, using water hose, and verifies width or thickness of cut stone, using rule.
* Replaces worn saw blades.
* Signals overhead crane operator to remove cut slabs from car or saw bed.
* May operate diamond gangsaw equipped with up to thirty vertically mounted diamond-edged saw blades.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects, repairs, and grades rough-cut and finished blocks or slabs of stone according to work order specifications. Responsibilities include:
* Examines stone block for defects in work and quality, such as cracks, fractures, and scratches.
* Measures dimensions of block, using tape measure.
* Cleans fractures and cracks in block with acid and sponge.
* Fills imperfections with matching colored wax, and polishes patched area, using file, hone, and portable buffer.
* May select rough blocks from stock for cutting and polishing.
* May mark code numbers on finished blocks according to work order specifications.
* May order quarry blocks for cutting and polishing.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who marks coded instructions on sandstone slabs to specify subsequent processing according to blueprint specifications. Responsibilities include:
* Studies blueprint to determine required dimensions of slab and processes needed to finish product.
* Locates specified slab on conveyor and verifies dimensions, using tape measure.
* Marks coded instructions on slab to specify processing required, such as radius edge, drip groove, and finished butt joint, using chalk.
* Records identification number of pieces on form and engraves number on slab edge, using air-powered engraving tool.
* Pushes slab onto roller conveyor for subsequent processing.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends trimming machine fitted with rotary cutting knives or single blade on spring pole to trim rough roofing slate to largest size that slabs will make. Responsibilities include:
* Sets notched bar that enables slab to be cut to desired size.
* Holds irregular slate slab beneath rotating cutting blade to trim edges.
* Turns slab and trims other edges.
* Sharpens cutting knives on grinding wheel.
* May split flagstone along cut line, using hammer and chisel.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends trimming machine fitted with rotary cutting knives or single blade on spring pole to trim rough roofing slate to largest size that slabs will make. Responsibilities include:
* Sets notched bar that enables slab to be cut to desired size.
* Holds irregular slate slab beneath rotating cutting blade to trim edges.
* Turns slab and trims other edges.
* Sharpens cutting knives on grinding wheel.
* May split flagstone along cut line, using hammer and chisel.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who this group includes occupations concerned with smoothing, polishing, or sharpening stone, clay, or glass by the wearing away action of abrasives on plane or rotary action machine tools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in edging and beveling of glass and mirrors. Responsibilities include:
* Patrols work areas and observes workers to assure conformance to company standards.
* Trains new workers in duties.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
* May perform routine maintenance on machines.
* May change or dress grinding wheels.
* May supervise workers engaged in operation of grooving machine that grinds grooves in glass shelving.
Industry:Professional careers
